🎸 Metallica, Mariah Carey and Biden unite against poverty and climate change
Metallica and Mariah Carey led, last Saturday (24) in New York's Central Park, the Global Citizen Festival, an event created to mobilize action against poverty and climate change and which featured a video appearance by American President Joe Biden.
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The festival of Global citizen, a philanthropic NGO – which promotes the fight against extreme poverty, climate change and discrimination – coincides with the United Nations (UN) General Assembly and joins in the hope of increasing pressure on world leaders.
The organization distributes tickets to fans in exchange for promoting actions against the aforementioned causes, such as campaigning on social media and pressuring their elected representatives to encourage external aid.
“We are inspired and grateful for all the work you have done and we want you to know that your fight is our fight,” said First Lady of the United States, Jill Biden, who appeared in the video with her husband.
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Along with the Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives and the Senate, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, who attended in person, President Biden highlighted the approval of a new climate legislative package, the most far-reaching legislation voted on in the United States to boost clean energy.
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley warned, however, that action on climate change is not reaching islands like hers quickly enough.
“Yes, my friends, our time is running out,” he said.
Oppressed women
Thrash metal legends Metallica sent the crowd wild with eight songs, including a cover of “Nothing Else Matters” with vocalist Mickey Guyton, one of the most prominent black women in country music.
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Guests sought to raise awareness on a range of topics, including women's rights, especially in light of protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini in moral police custody.
“I saw my sisters forced to flee abuse, oppression and femicide around the world, women like Mahsa Jina Amini,” said Anuscheh Amir-Khalili, of Iranian descent and refugee advocate in Berlin.
“We must speak up for oppressed women. I’m here for them,” she declared to the crowd.
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☀️ Renewable energy sector employs 12,7 million globally
Um new report (🇬🇧) published by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) points out that the renewable energy sector employed 12,7 million professionals in 2021.
According to the survey, the number represents an increase of 700 thousand new jobs in one year.
Solar energy has been identified as the fastest growing industry. Last year, it generated 4,3 million jobs, more than a third of the current global renewable energy workforce.
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energy transition
The study points out that concerns such as climate change and job recovery have led an increasing number of countries to create jobs in the renewable energy sector. Almost two-thirds of these jobs are in Asia.
China alone represents 42% of the global total, followed by the European Union and Brazil, with 10% each, and the United States and India with 7% each.
Sustainable jobs
ILO Director-General Guy Ryder said there is an increasing focus on the quality of jobs and working conditions in the renewable energy sector, to ensure “decent and productive” employabilitysystem. (UN News)
Ryder encouraged governments, workers and employer organizations to remain firmly engaged in a sustainable energy transition, which is indispensable for the future of work.
🌱 Braskem launches Oxygea, with US$150 million to make plastic sustainable
A Braskem launched, last week, the Oxygea Adventures – corporate venture capital arm of petrochemicals. The company emerged as part of the public commitment made by Braskem to be carbon neutral by 2050 and increase its plastic recycling ratesystem. (Reset)
"It is a hub dedicated to startups that will drive sustainable innovation and digital transformation in the chemical industry“, defines the company page.
The initiative was born with a capital of US$ 150 million to be invested over the next five years in partnerships with startups in two verticals: environment e digital transformation.
🐗 9 out of 10 Brazilians are against allowing hunting in Brazil, according to research
Nine out of ten Brazilians do not approve of the idea of allowing hunting in the country. The information is part of a survey carried out by the Datafolha Institute, at the request of the WWF-Brazil organization. The numbers were released last Wednesday (21). (WWF-Brazil)
For the survey, 2.088 people aged 16 and over were interviewed – in all five regions of the country – and answered two questions: “Do you agree with the idea of authorizing animal hunting in Brazil?” e “Would you vote for someone who supports hunting in Brazil?”.
Of the total number of people surveyed, 90% disagreed with the idea of authorizing hunting, 9% agreed and 1% were unable to respond.. Rejection is greater among women (92%) and residents of metropolitan areas, with 93%.
Female opinion is also the majority when the topic is the possibility of voting for candidates who support hunting, with 91% stating that they would not vote for anyone who defends this issue, compared to 88% of the general population. Rejection is stronger among women and residents of metropolitan areas, both at 91%. Only 10% of those interviewed would vote for candidates who support the authorization of hunting in the country and 3% were unable to answer.
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